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From: drlove@well.sf.ca.us (David R. Love)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Peer-to-peer in Client-Server
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Date: 2 May 91 13:49:31 GMT
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My experience has been in OSI and peer-to-peer environments.  In looking
at the X-world, it seems that it's more the terminal-to-host situation.
My question is:  What happens  to peer-to-peer-based applications that
are to run in an X-defined client-server environment?  If for example
I have a User Agent on my workstation that connects to a Message Transfer
Agent on a server and the connection is through X, what is the effect on
the p-t-p relationship between the UA and the MTA?  X's client-server
definition doesn't seem to have the same meaing as client-server in the
database world.  Or perhaps i just don't see it properly.  Any help
with the focus would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.  Dave Love